> Following on from a previous discussion, I am trying to write a "safe" > strip_tags function. > > I start by applying htmlentities to the entire string, and then convert > "allowed" tags back. > > One of the steps I am looking at doing is to replace something "<a > href="blah" onmouseover="blah">" with "<a href="blah">" > > What would be a good preg_replace string for this? > > Preg_replace('/(<A)/i', '<a', $htmlstring); > > Except I need to keep the href="<anything>" as well as the closing >, > but drop everything else. > > I will be googling on this too, but a reply from this group is always > quicker <g>
How about $new_string = preg_replace('/<a href="([^"]+)".*>/U','< a href="$1">',$old_string); Adapt to your needs... ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php